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At first look, the torching of a number of land or sub-registrars' offices across the country appears more likely to be linked to the countrywide arson and bomb attacks on roads and highways. But appearances can be deceptive. If the land documents can be destroyed, interested quarters, having their obnoxious interests crossing the apparent political divide, can lay claim on contentious lands and undisputed lands can be made contentious. Already, the country's courts are overburdened with land litigations which outnumber any other type of court cases. Now fresh claims and counter claims over lands will exacerbate the situation. Not a good prospect when the express intention of the administration is to resolve land disputes as early as possible and bring down the number to the minimum possible!

At a time when the country is all set to journeying on the highway of digitisation, leaving land records to the mercy of the traditional murky method of registration is undoubtedly incompatible. In fact, UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) mapping of lands is what can streamline the entire system. Literally every inch of land can be accurately pinpointed under such mapping, leaving no scope for elements with ill motive to grab other's or government land. Such mapping, moreover, can gainfully be applied to detect soil moisture and related facts and also a lot of other information necessary on agriculture can be collected. If a central data bank is thus developed, use of the scarce land resources in the country can be rationalised. Digital records of lands leave no scope for manipulation of documents. Any attempt to do so can easily be detected on the basis of the mapping details stored. Document forgery may be a thing of the past. A few of the Indian states have successfully implemented digitised land records to reap the enormous benefits of the measure.

For Bangladesh it is more a compulsion than a mere shift from the old system to a new one. This tiny nation's waste of money, time and energy on land litigation is simply unaffordable. E-governance can be an answer to the messy land administration in this country. The first step towards this change ought to be doing away with the archaic and complicated language used for drafting documents. Sure enough, in a country where internet penetration leaves much to be desired on account of lack of the required level of education and technological knowledge, initially some problems will naturally be encountered. But if people with no education at all had to face similar problems with documents unintelligible to them. The difference though is in their favour because they now have the opportunity to have the facts checked or double checked by people whom they can trust. After all under the digitised system, information is free and access to all the required information is open to all. Earlier people were denied this opportunity and the crafty and devious elements could forge documents and deprive the rightful owners of their property. So it is an overriding necessity to go for digitised system of land records.

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Quelle/Source: The Financial Express Bangladesh, 21.03.2015

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